CapePete

Born in Buxton,15/06/1947,winters cold,damp and snowy,had pneumonia 3 times in 2 years,my parents advised moving to Lincolnshire,which is where I lived until my mid 50,s when I moved to Spain,but been a Derby fan for as long as I can remember.

Quick update: I have just left the meeting which is still ongoing otherwise I would miss the last train.
A decision was made not to release minutes for this meeting in the end, but I am free to get a write up out to you all as soon as I can. 
I do not have a laptop with me and would prefer to wait until tomorrow once I’m home and can go through all the notes.
I will aim to have it ready to post on the forum tomorrow.
Please do not bombard me with questions across the forum by mentioning me, PM, DM or text if you have my number.
I don’t want to be putting bits and pieces out there all over the place.

Honey, I’m home!

Ok, submissions and voting is over, below is the order of questions to try and put forward to the club.
I say try, as I must stress again, there is no guarantees over how many I will personally be able to ask.
That’s not because we’re yes men, brown nosers who will be sat around laughing and joking which I’ve seen accusations of on other social media platforms.
I always knew the supporters charter meetings would draw criticism, but we have just a couple of hours with the club with several fan groups, all with a list of their own questions which they are looking to raise.
Some of which will quite possibly turn into lengthy discussions/answers given the current situation. 
I know we have a lot of fans that appreciate what we do, and I thank you. Tomorrow I will leave my house around 1pm and not be home until gone midnight, trains, taxis, £50 odd at my own cost, more than the price of a Huddersfield match ticket some of you are moaning about, to take questions that you all were given an opportunity to submit and vote on.
These are not questions I have come up with by myself, but that we have all contributed to.
I will do my best to represent you, and if my best isn’t good enough then I can only apologise. All I ask is be respectful.
Finally please be aware that there is an agreement in place that the meeting will not be discussed until the minutes have been released to us all to share within our groups and on the club website.
This is in my view the most important meeting since the formation of the Supporters Charter, with widespread frustration and anger at the lack of communication, it’s imperative we get the information out there to you all asap 
Questions
David: Mel, how are you and how is your health? (81 votes)
Rev: Can you give a cast iron guarantee you'll continue to fund the club with the minimum amount needed to ensure survival as a club, until any takeover how ever long that will be? (38 votes)
G Star: It would appear that insufficient due diligence was carried out on the prospective sales to BZI and Erik Alonso.
Who carried out due diligence and what measures have been put in place to ensure that we are not sold to such an unprofessional outfit? (38 votes)
Tombo: Supporters are aware that the club is very much up for sale, but what is the plan for the next few years should a takeover not come to fruition? (37 votes)
I-Ram: Upon completing the sale of the club, will it once again have a stadium that it owns? (28 votes)
Ambitious: I think we need to get answers to every point on this, including the details behind each one. Why are we the only club in the entire football league default in payments to the HMRC. Do regulation 16.2, 16.3 and P&S non-submission of audited accounts really relate to purely amortisation or is there more to it? (27 votes)

Ellafella: The name of Derby County has been radically sullied in the press of late, some of it very unfair. Does the Club have a communications strategy to set the record straight over some of the issues eg how we cheated relegation? How we fixed our accounts? How we sold the ground to ourselves? What we value as a Club eg fairness, community spirited, ambitious. (27 votes)
Anag Ram: What can we, the fans, do to help at this difficult time? (27 votes)
Carl Sagan: Derby County Football Club belongs to you, but also to the people of the city and the community of fans around the world. And many are very worried for the club's future. What are your plans for the club if the worst happens and you cannot find someone to buy it off you? (22 votes)
California Ram: Have you considered selling a small shareholding of the club to fans to bring in immediate capital while continuing to make the club attractive to majority ownership buyers. (19 votes)

what is the likelihood of a takeover in the near future? 

 

The team.
1) It means the EFL won’t register any of the trialists
or
2) Message to the board
or
3) Just wants to give some minutes to players that will make up the squad, signing trialists or not.
or
3a) This could always have been the plan 
Either way, we won’t know until Rooney talks to the media after the game, we will know in a couple of hours. I’m looking forward to seeing how the team gets on today, maybe I’m weird but some of these players are considered to be our future, how do you know they are ready if you don’t give them a chance? 
We don’t want them to play cup games, we don’t want them to play pre season games whilst sitting here saying how great our academy is.
As a regular watcher and someone that’s attended a few U23 games, it’s become a more interesting afternoon. 
This is their big chance to show Rooney they are ready and answer the questions we all have IF no trialists are registered.
Apologies for not slamming the club here.

I was born in Birmingham, then lived in Cheltenham, and then moved up to Buxton when I was 10 and decided Derby County would be my team and convinced my dad from Nottingham to get season tickets, first in the Normaton Upper at the BBG, then to PP. Tried to make games when I could after going to uni, now living in North Wales.

I was born in Birmingham, then lived in Cheltenham, and then moved up to Buxton when I was 10 and decided Derby County would be my team and convinced my dad from Nottingham to get season tickets, first in the Normaton Upper at the BBG, then to PP. Tried to make games when I could after going to uni, now living in North Wales.

I would like to submit this non football related question, but one that I feel on a human level should be asked.
Mel, how are you and how is your health?

After years of work and research here it is !
The Derby County shirt worn in the inaugural season of 1884 by the pioneers of our club, Cambridge Blue, Amber and Chocolate Brown the first colours of the Rams, it was thought that the early colours were blue but it was a shade of blue called Cambridge Blue which is actually more of a green. The badge was the badge of the Derbyshire FA that a player was permitted to wear if they had been selected to represent the Derbyshire FA.
we have had two made by a local tailor after we sourced the correct colours and the materials, the embroidery was done separately, even down to mother of Pearl buttons, it is to add further integrity to the book but moreover to show where the club evolved from, the team that wore these colours set the precedent for all those that have followed, the shirts will be on display at our Rams Heritage roadshows later in the year.
brought to life after 137 years by Phil Lowe & Jason Shardlow.

Can i just take this opportunity to commiserate with the directors of Wycombe Wanderers on this breaking development

I posted some of these yesterday on the Baseball Ground memories post but I think that they warrant a post of their own for the fans who don’t live around Derby or those who do who have never revisited the old BBG area, the surrounding roads etc and may have wondered what it now looks like.
The names are all the same but the view is very different.
I took a walk around, first time i had done it, I could feel the hairs on my neck start buzzing as I walked down Cambridge Street, it has such an image etched in my memory of the floodlights at the Osmaston End and the welcome to the Baseball Ground sign, Shaftesbury Crescent columbo St, Vulcan St, the names forever associated with those walks to the ground, the smells of beer and fags from the pubs along the way that filled the air, the locals stood on their doorsteps to protect their windows, the scuffles that would break out, the police horses being used to skilfully control the crowd, the chants that would echo around the close knit roads, all of those memories of a time gone past are held in these photos.

Here’s my away kit concept. Mash up of 1886-1888 four colour one, 1984 centenary home kit and then the universally loved yellow/blue/red (even though EVERYONE hates red on our shirt, right?!?) 1993/94 away. Thrown on a few different sponsors who are our current and then the biggest local employers. What do you lot think of this then… ??

A concept kit based off this was already done on Twitter!

Yankee Doodle Derby?
 

Calm yourself down, every club would celebrate staying up on the last day of the season. Its want fans do, as for us being tin pot, you are tin pot, so please make sure you stay away from Pride Park next season, we do not need your negativity around our great club. Once A Ram Always A Ram. 

The drunken match report is back.
What a day. 
Seeing the people I haven’t seen for a long, long time at the pub. The people I’ve gone all over the country with. To Grimsby, to Preston, to god knows where.
Yes, it’s embarrassing that we had to survive on the final day. But I don’t care. I’ve celebrated us pulling something out of the bag on the final day.
I’ve created a memory that I’ll cherish forever.
I love football. I love Derby County.
Up the bloody Rams.

No excuses now. It's firmly back in our own hands. 

I TRUST Wayne Rooney. He is Derby County Football Club.
I TRUST Joel. He is Derby County Football Club.
I TRUST Derby County Football Club. My Football Club.
At a time when our club needs us supporters the most, at a time especially, supporting them for supporting us in our community.
D.C.F.C. Love, Life & Unity.